{"id":77,"date":"2010-02-09T12:16:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2015-07-03T07:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T15:09:01","slug":"randy-wells-blog-photography-travel-porsche-music-reviews-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/randy_wells-909.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/randy_wells-909.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rwellshouston909tx\" width=\"330\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/randy_wells-909.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/randy_wells-909-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUSTON&#8217;S FOTOFEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next month I&#8217;ll be traveling to one of my favorite big cities: Houston, Texas. The purpose of my visit is to promote my forthcoming book, <em>Imagine A Nation: In Search of America<\/em>. I&#8217;ll be meeting with publishers and gallery owners in preparation for 2012, my hoped for publication date. The venue is the famous FotoFest, a biennial photographic community gathering which this year features contemporary U.S. photography. I&#8217;m really excited by all the possibilities that lay in store and the people I will be meeting. In my spare time I&#8217;ll be sure and take in some ribs and architectural photography! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotofest.org\">fotofest.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE FROM HOUSTON&#8217;S FOTOFEST <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m in Houston, Texas attending FotoFest. Showing my book project has been quite the exprerience. To all the reviewers I met with over the past five days, please accept my sincere thanks. Your feedback was amazingly inspirational to me and I appreciated your valuable time and consideration. Special thanks go to Arthur Meyerson, Hossein Farmani, Karen Sinsheimer and Mary Virginia Swanson for their incredible assistance in lending support to my project.  I owe inspiration to Diana Edkins for this photo. Next stop is The Palm Springs Photo Festival in two weeks. Please stay tuned for more to come&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rand_ywells-1570.jpg\" title=\"rand_ywells-1570.jpg\"><img id=\"image663\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rand_ywells-1570.jpg\" alt=\"rand_ywells-1570.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON&#8217;S FOTOFEST Next month I&#8217;ll be traveling to one of my favorite big cities: Houston, Texas. The purpose of my visit is to promote my forthcoming book, Imagine A Nation: In Search of America. I&#8217;ll be meeting with publishers and gallery owners in preparation for 2012, my hoped for publication date. The venue is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=77\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}